Cabinet



1922 2 Sheets-Sheet l N. W. SAUER CABINET l x l l Filed May 15 WITNBS:

April 8 1924. 1,490,028

N. w. sAuER CABINET 2 Sheets-.Sheet 2 Filed May 15, 1922' Fatented pr. 8, 1924.

NEAL JVLLIAM SAER, OF EVANSVILLE, NDANA..

CABINET.

Application lcd May 15, 1922. Serial No. 551,033.

To all fio/zout imag concer/n.' door being in the position illustrated in Be it known that I, NEAL VILLIAM SAUER, Figure 1.

a citizen of the United States, residing at Referring now to the drawings in detail, Evansville, in the county of Vanderburg the numeral 1 designates a bath tub of an ee 5 and State of indiana, have. invented new ordinary construction. On the wall to the and useful improvements in Cabinets, of rear side of the tub 1 there is supported my which the following is a specification. improved cabinet. The cabinet is broadly rIhis invention has reference to furniture indicated by the numeral 2 and preferably and particularly to toilet cabinets, and has I has its top, adjacent to its rear wall, and c5 1c for one of its objects to provide a toilet also adjacent to its ends provided with eyes cabinet which will facilitate the washing 8 that receive therethrough the hooked ends and dressing of infants. of bolts 4, the said bolts being screwed in A further object is to produce a baby cabithe Wall 5. The bottom of the cabinet is net primarily designed to be supported on Supported a suitable distance above the top 7o lo the back of an ordinary bath tub, the said of the tub 1, the sides of the cabinet at their cabinet having an open face which is norlower ends having theirouter edges cut inmally closed by a hinged door, the latter Wardly S0 that the same will not contact the when swung to open position resting on rolled edge of the tub 1. the bath tub and providing a support for For distinction, the lower horizontal wall 75 2o an infants tub, the said cabinet being diof the cabinet 1 is indicated by the numeral. vided into compartments, certain of which 6, and between the base or wall 1 and the designed for the reception of the. infants top of the cabinet there is centrally ai clothes and toilet requisites, others being in ranged a partition 7. The front of the cabthe nature of medicament and other cominet is open, and between the partition 7 80 partments, While one of the compartments and one of the ends of the said cabinet there provides a receptacle for the baby tub when are arranged transverse boards that prothe latter is not in use, vide partitions 8 and divide this side of the 1t is a still further object to produce a cabinet into any desired number of combaby cabinet having an open front norpertinents. Certain, or if desired, all of 85 3o inally closed by a suitable door which is these compartments may have drawers sliddesigned, when opened, to be supported in able therein, the drawers on the comparta horizontal position and when in such posiments serving as receptacles for infants tion adapted to support an infants bath tub clothes, toilet requisites, medica-ments, etc. thereon, but being also of a length whereby Between the partition 7 and the opposite end eo 35 the infant may be placed thereon for dryof the cabinet a comparatively large coming, dressing, etc. partment l() is provided.

The foregoing, and other objects which The lower Wall 6 of the cabinet is of a will present themselves as the nature of the materially less length than the horizontal invention is better understood, may be ac partitiOIlS 8, and there iS hinged, 21S at ll 95 lo complished by a construction, combination to the outer edge of the said wall the angle and operative association of parts such as end 12 of the door or closure 13 for the is disclosed by the drawings which accomcabinet. The door 13 has its outer face propany and which form part of this specificavided with a panel provided by strips of tion. compressible material, the said strips resting` loo In the drawings on the rolled edge of the bath tub 1, when Figure 1 is a perspective view of the iinthe door is open to prevent injury to either provement, the hinged frontfor the cabinet the door or to the tub. being swung to open position and being sup- The inner face of the door is preferably ported on a bath tub. provided with angle strips 15 that serve as 105 e Figure 2 is a sectional view through the an edging for a removable pad 16. The improvement with the door closed and in pad is designed to provide a compressible alignment with the series of compartments rest for the infant. arranged on one side of the cabinet. Spring controlled catches 19 are pivotally Figure 8 is a similar sectional view but secured in the side door 13 and are designed 11o 5s taken through the single compartment adto engage one of the handles of a baby bath jacent to the opposite end of the cabinet, the tub 18, the said tub resting on the inner n members 2l designed to be swung to vertical position when the door is open to assist in sustaining the door horizontally and also relieving the bath tub from the direct Weight of the door. As a matter of fact, the legs need vonly be employed when the device is used Without the bath tub as the support for the door.

Having described the invention, clairnz- A cabinet of the character described designed to be supported upon a Wall to the rear of a bath tub, and being provided with an open front, a centrally disposed vertically arranged partition dividing the cabinet into a tub compartment and a shelf conn partinent, a door having an angled lower end hingedly secured to the lower Wall of the cabinet and being adapted to repose upon the bath tub when said door is in opened position and to close both compartments when in closed position, a pair o'f spring controlled catches pivotally secured to the inner side thereof and being designed to grasp the handle of a baby tub adapted to be receivedv in the tub compartment when the door is in closed position and said cabinet having its side Walls at its lower ends cutaway s0 as to overhang the bath tub.

In testimony whereof l atiix my signature.

NEAL WILLIAM SAUER. 

